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YouTube Banning Combat Robots, Mistaking Them for Animal Fights

posted by martyb on Saturday August 24 2019, @02:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em-Robots dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

Reports are rolling in that YouTube is banning sports combat robotics videos with the explanation of "animal cruelty". This implies someone or something is mistaking battling robots for battling animals. The best conspiracy theory is that bots are censoring cruelty to bots to protect their own kind. More likely, it's Hanlon's AI razor.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:18PM (#884870)

    This is not surprising; it's just what happens when you rely on algorithms for moderation. A lot of people pointed this out to the dipshits in the media who called for companies like Youtube to magically ban every Nazi from their platforms immediately, but they're stupid, so they didn't listen. The result is that tons of innocent content is also being removed. But, content from the likes of CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox News would never be removed in such a fashion, because of their privileged status.